CFP - Special Session (accepted) 52nd Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Philadelphia, PA - March 11 - 14, 2021 CARING, TOUCHING, MOVING, IN FRENCH AND FRANCOPHONE CULTURE (organized by Dr. Loïc Bourdeau, University of Louisiana at Lafayette) As the world came to a sudden stop with the COVID-19 pandemic, topics such as (self)care, mental wellness, disability, (gendered) emotional labor, and social distancing have been at the center of many...

NeMLA 2021, Philadelphie, 11-14 Mars 2021 From L’Étranger by Albert Camus, to Bertolt Brecht’s The Threepenny Opera and Leon Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina , a large number of literary works are finding a second life by being reimagined in a different medium, such as graphic novels, films, TV series, as well as video games, radio plays, and art installations. Critical and interpretive insights that form at the intersection of different media adaptations arise with the transposition of...

Call for Papers for Women in French 2020 Midwest Modern Language Association Convention Milwaukee, Wisconsin November 5-8, 2020 Call for Papers for WIF at the 2020 MMLA Convention (November 5-8 in Milwaukee, WI). This year’s theme is “Cultures of Collectivity.” Please send a 250-word abstract in French or English along with your academic affiliation, brief bio, and A/V requirements to Jennifer Howell, Illinois State University, jthowel@ilstu.edu by ...

CFP: "Dystopia and Utopia in Contemporary German Literature and Film"; PAMLA in Las Vegas, Nevada, Nov 12-15, 2020 [June 1, 2020] Call for Papers for the Special Session "Dystopia in Contemporary German Literature and Film" at PAMLA in Las Vegas, Nevada. In his newest novel, QualityLand , Marc-Uwe Kling eloquently and humorously uses the intersection of dystopia and utopia to highlight the genre’s satirical potential. In a time where political ignorance and easily accessible...

The City and Canadian Literature and Authors at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference Las Vegas: “City of God, City of Destruction” Nov 12-Nov 15, 2020 The theme of the 2020 PAMLA conference focuses on ideas and forms of cities, fictive cities, and symbolic cities, and on various representations of urban cultures and peoples. This panel focuses on real and fictional Canadian cities, expressing visions of city types, culture, and the development of identity...

The following special session has been accepted for the 2020 Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association conference being held at the University of Nevada Las Vegas November 12th through Sunday November 15, 2020. This panel invites papers on contemporary texts or stories from antiquity that examine the difficulties of expressing female saintliness/sexuality and the linguistic pathways formed, hurdles overcome, to do so. In early ascetic Christianity, female holiness required...

Max Kade Visiting Professor / U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invites applications for the Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professorship for Spring 2021. Candidates must have the Ph.D. with specialization in any area of Germanic studies, with preference given to those with interdisciplinary and comparative research interests. Candidates must be employed full time at a...

It is with great regret that the Board of the American Comparative Literature Association has determined that it is no longer practical or ethical to continue with the conference as planned. We are, therefore, canceling the 2020 conference in Chicago. The Board has been closely monitoring the Coronavirus outbreak and weighing the risks of holding the 2020 conference as scheduled, March 19-22, in Chicago. Last week, with no official bans on travel or large gatherings imposed by municipal and...

The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will hold its 2020 conference October 23-24 at Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester, NH. The Travel Studies Area of NEPCA invites paper proposals on the subject of travel and tourism, broadly conceived. Paper proposals may include (but are not limited to) analysis and critical perspectives on topics such as: Depictions of travel in art, film, literature, and television Historic sites, museums, and monuments ...

Call for Abstracts for GSA 2020 panel series: Thinking Machines and the “Psychic Apparatus” Freud’s tendency to use the term “psychic apparatus” as a synonym or even substitute for “Geist” [mind, spirit] explains in part his unique position within contemporary humanistic approaches to science and technology studies. On the one hand, the technical locution marks Freud as a late exponent of a 19 th -century scientific tradition that strove to render the mind ‘material,’ via a combination...